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Introducing our 2020 series: Closed Universe.

In December we start the year up in the Italian alps…

Adelmo Farandola doesn’t like people. In summer he roams the valleys, his only company a talkative, cantankerous old dog and a young mountain ranger who, Adelmo Farandola suspects, is spying on him. When winter comes, man and dog are snowed in. With stocks of wine and bread depleted, they pass the time squabbling over scraps, debating who will eat the other first. Spring brings a more sinister discovery that threatens to break Adelmo Farandola’s already faltering grip on reality: a man’s foot poking out of the receding snow.

Then in April we journey to northernmost Norway…

Seabirds in northern Norway share the parenting of chicksequally. Even in the twenty-four-hour darkness of winter theycare for their young together. Among these birds a researchscientist makes her home in an abandoned fisherman’s hut.Surrounded by nature, she observes the birds for her PhD andwaits for her lover to arrive. As the days pass, secrets of the cabin’spast are revealed: a mysterious fire; a tragedy from generations long ago;a child who waits for their mother to return. Perhaps what comesnaturally for seabirds is not always so natural to us…

In August we end the year on the outskirts of Tbilisi in Georgia…

Lela knows two things to be absolutely true:i. The history teacher has to die.ii. Across the pear field lies freedom.In post-soviet Georgia, on the outskirts of Tbilisi, on the corner of Kerch St.,is an orphanage. Its teachers offer pupils lessons in violence, abuse and neglect.Lela is old enough to leave but has nowhere else to go. She stays and plans forthe children’s escape, for a future she hopes to give to Irakli, a young boy inthe home. When an American couple visits, offering the prospect of a new life,Lela decides she must do everything she can to give Irakli this chance.

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A Peirene subscription is unique. Not only will you receive your books far before they reach bookshops but you’ll also become a part of our Peirene community. You’ll make our work possible.

Peirene only publishes first time English translations. With the support of our subscribers we are able to take bold risks and translate vital works that might never have reached English readers.

In 2018 we translated from three new countries: Latvia, Lithuania and Iceland.

Peirene No. 25 Soviet Milk was called ‘Latvia itself talking’ by The New European.